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MOLECULAR THERAPY-NUCLEIC ACIDS
卷 18, 期 -, 页码 245-252出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2019.08.021
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- Bio-Industry Technology Development Program [111070-3]
- Animal & Plant Quarantine Agency [Z-1543081-2017-18-02]
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, Republic of Korea
Here, we report a novel bactericidal peptide nucleic acid (PNA) that can induce the antisense effect on the cytidine monophosphate kinase (Cmk) of Staphylococcus aureus, a putative essential component for bacterial species. Based on the genome sequence of S. aureus N315, a set of PNA conjugates with a bacterial penetration peptide, (KFF)(3)K, were synthesized to target the seven potentially essential genes (cmk, deoD, ligA, smpB, glmU, pyrH, and ftsA) and further evaluated for their antibacterial properties in vitro as well as in vivo. The results demonstrated that two peptide-conjugated PNAs (P-PNAs), antisense P-PNA (ASP)-cmk1 and ASP-deoD1, targeting either the cmk or the deoD genes, had the strongest inhibitory effects on the growth of S. aureus ATCC 29740 (a bovine mastitic milk isolate) in a dose-dependent manner. In vivo application of ASP-cmk1 resulted in a significant reduction of bacterial loads in mice intraperitoneally infected with a sublethal dose of S. aureus. Moreover, ASP-cmk1 significantly increased the survival rate of the breast-fed infant mice after intramammary infection of the lactating CD-1 mice. Taken together, our characterization of ASP-cmk1 demonstrated its bactericidal activity against S. aureus as well as its effectiveness in vivo.
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